Owner Demands Vet Euthanize His Overweight Golden Retriever, Now He Has A New Home And Lost Over 100lbs

We all love our dogs and sometimes, we love them a little bit
too much. It may cause us to give in and feed them every time they ask
for food. That being said, what the previous owner of one golden
retriever did was shameful. They tried to put him down because he was
overweight.

Kai, the golden retriever was brought by his previous owner to visit the veterinarian. Immediately, the vet contacted the Misfits of Alberta Animal Rescue,
and before long, Pam Heggie was put together with the dog. They had the
goal of helping Kai to find a home and to lose the dangerous weight he
was carrying around.

Heggie gave an interview
to Good Morning America. The new foster mother wasn’t familiar with Kai
and what happened in his past but she did know that he needed some
desperate TLC. Kai was the most overweight animal that the veterinarian
had ever seen and said: “anything you do is gonna help that dog.”

When Kai first went to his new foster home, he weighed 172 pounds. Since that time, he has dropped over half his body weight.

It took Kai 20 minutes to climb the small set of stairs outside of his new foster home when he first arrived.

Heggie immediately started to take Kai for three walks every day, in
the morning, when she got home from work and before bed. He struggled at
first but eventually, things started to get easier.

Heggie told GMA, “Literally, he went five to 10 steps, and then he
would lay down and start panting. But they kept at it and each day he
pushed a little harder. We went to the closest neighbor’s driveway and
then the next neighbor over.”

Kai got started on water therapy to strengthen his back legs and build stamina.